From Stone to Silk

Last Friday we opened our first exhibition — not in a white-walled gallery in a big city, but at Den Blå Hesten in Måløy, by Barmen in Nordfjord, where Torunn grew up and where Myklé Heritage has its roots.

We called it From Stone to Silk. It is a title about transformation — about what happens when craft meets material, when the heavy and rooted becomes something light and moving.

Vev (Weave) was made by Innvik AS, a Norwegian institution that has kept the craft alive since 1890. The textile fills the wall from floor to ceiling. It is not art that hangs at a distance — it is something you can sense another person spent their time on.

Landskap (Landscape) was designed by Smau Arkitektur — an open wooden structure that holds the scarves from Myklé Heritage. The scarves hang and sway, there to be put on, felt, seen in.

Rommet (The Room, 2026) presents the L-Chair by Silje Nesdal, painted in rosemaling by Cecilie Maurud Barstad. The rosemaling breaks out of the canvas and into the chair, into the room — a craft that refuses to stay in its place.

Around the works hang the photo series Heimom (Homeward, 2025), a collaboration between Lasse Fløde and Torunn. The photographs were taken here, in this landscape — a figure on a stone, in an open Nordfjord landscape. It is not nostalgia. It is presence.

Silje Nesdal, Innvik AS and Lasse Fløde all have roots in Nordfjord. It was important to us that the exhibition be built by people from the same landscape it is about.

We are proud to work with Norwegian craftspeople.

The exhibition From Stone to Silk is at Den Blå Hesten, Måløy, until the end of November.

Exhibition: From Stone to Silk
Place: Den Blå Hesten, Måløy, Nordfjord
Period: September–November 2026

Vev — Innvik AS (est. 1890)
Landskap — Smau Arkitektur
Rommet — Silje Nesdal (L-Chair), Cecilie Maurud Barstad (rosemaling)
Heimom — Lasse Fløde and Torunn Myklebust

Photography: Lasse Fløde

With thanks to Måløy Kunstlag